Meet the alumnus who spent his life working in some of the world’s most dangerous locations

1 Mar 2017

Recent events have cast Australia’s foreign policy and diplomacy into the limelight; yet few realise how risky and demanding the work of a diplomat can be. UQ recently caught up with Mr David Ritchie AO (Bachelor of Arts (Honours) ’75, Doctor of Letters honoris causa ’16) to discuss his career as a diplomat, working in some of the world’s most dangerous locations.

Mr Ritchie remains the only Australian diplomat to have served on both sides of the Berlin Wall and then in the unified Germany.